Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-06-25
The Sprinkltng OF Lawns, etc.
THE ORDINANCE LIMITING THE TINE TO THIRTY MN
CTEs DAILY TO BE ENFORCED.


The order which the Commissioners have made
restricting the sprinkling OF lawns and pave
ments to half an hour day is based upon
the act OF August f. 1859. A reference TO page
372 Webbs Digest, shows that "The use OF pave
be restricted to the time between sunrise and z
O'Clock am and sunset and one hour thereafter
and then for no longer period than fifteen minutes;
and any person or persons who shall use or permit
the use or his, her, or their pavement or street
washers or hand hose Ia violation OF this act shall
be liable to a f1ne OF not less than one nor more
It win be seen by this that only thirty min
utes day is permitted for street washing and
Commissioners Webb declared TO a STAR reporter
to-day that the Commissioners Will enforce the
ordinance.
An AssrGNMENT.-E. Chester stott. druggist at
$50 Pennsylvania avenue, has made an assignment
to w. NJ. Calf and w. 8. Thompson, for the benefit
lot 6, square 6e4; lots 12 and IA square lo4l; Is
and23, square 1017; his stock at $50 Pennsylvania
avenue, horses, wagons &C.. and his furniture at
lowing preferred creditors: w. ii. Slater, $500;
Henry Eagan, 500: Noah, Walker q Co., sls6.45
T; J. H0ltzclaw, $50; A. Burgdorf, sl52:5o: Pro-
v1denU Life and Trust Company, e12l, and North
western Life Insurance Company, 1894.
CHAPEL Po1Nr, Nd, has been leased by a party
Of business men OF New York, whose intention IL Is
to ut 1t up for excursion parties and for entertain
ment OF those who wish TO leave the city during
the heated term.
The ALLEGED PENSION swrNpLERs LEAvE.-Dr
Robert n. Mills and John Laidlow, arrested in
Greene County, Va, by Inspector Jacobs, or the
Pension once, for presenting q fraudulent PEN
sion claim in the name or Francis Patterson LETT
this afternoon in charge OF Chief OF Police Little,
OF Elmira, n. Y, for that place.
A RUNAWAY Boy ClPruREp-Last evening when
the O'Clock train pulled into the Baltimore and
Potomac depot Special Onicer Shaw arrested q
eleven-year-old coiored boy, named Jno. Fletcher,
as he was leaving car. and Officers Penny and
sutton took him TO the police station. The arrest
was made on dispatch from his father, Hamilton
w. Fletcher, at AnSonia, Conn.,, stating that the
boy had run away from his home. John admits
that ne stole $40 before starting, and states that
he lett home on account OF I-treatmenl by his
father, and that he intended to 60 to his grand
mother In West Washington.
ExCURsIoNs.-The T. N. Healy Branch OF the
Irish National League gives an excursion to River
View on Monday, the 9Th instant.-On Wednes-
day an excursion, under the auspices OF the sun
day school or the E-Street Baptist church, viii be
made to Bay Ridge on the CheSapeake.-on
Monday an excursion will be given by the Ladies
Aid Society or Waugh NJ. E church to Bay Ridge
leaving the b and y. depot at 9:l5 q. M.
PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS AT AGAssIz PARK
The Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Company
has located station at AgasSL Park, across the
Eastern Branch. An "AgasslL Park Improvement
ing to have about twenty brick buildings erected
In the business section OF the park.
RoBBERIEs REPoRTED.-J. j. DAILY, No. 1857 c
street southwest, reports that between IL and 4
O'Clock this morning his house was entered and
robbed or gold watch and chain. $40 In money
and some silver coins. George b. SudworJh, 3l24
street. reports stolen from his DESK In the Agri-
Cultural Department building, q silver watch and
chain, valued at So